Amateur Telescope Making

Bob May's ATM Pages (943)
Bob May is one of the leading ATMers around. His pages have lots of great ATM info, articles and links.

David Gault's Astronomy Page (895)
David's pages cover his efforts in amateur telescope making and Observational Astronomy. His pages have good info on building both a 10" scope and a very nice homemade German Equatorial Mount.

Jan van Gastel's Astonomy Page (908)
Jan van Gastel is another long-time ATMer from the Netherlands who has accumulated quite a bit iof valuable knowledge. He now shares it with us in English via these web pages.

Little Dipper Telescope (1,181)
Interesting article on building an open-tube Dobsonian based on the designs of Albert Highe

Mirror-O-Matic (817)
Want to grind your own mirrors? Don't want to wear your arms out? try building one of these mirror grinding machines. Plans and instructions for the ATM.

Nils Olaf Carlin - Hacksaw Spider (933)
Nils Olaf carlin's interesting article on bulign a secondary spider for a Newtonian using hacksaw blades. Nils is the author of the seminal treatise on Newtonian Collimation using a barlowed laser.

Nils Olaf Carlin - Newtonian Collimation (926)
Nils Olaf Carlin's breakthrough paper on Newtonian Collimation using a barlowed laser. This is valuable information even if you don't own a Newt. it'll help you understand collimation in other scope species as well.

Star Astronomy's ATM Pages (698)
S*T*A*R has an active ATM (Amateur Telescope Making) group. They have several articles and links to resources that are useful if you are interested in learning more about telescope making,

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